CM Qazi Death: The Twin Murder of Rational Thought & Moral Practice
The perpetrators behind his disappearance have to be brought to book without fear or favor, whatsoever be their nepotistic nexus with the power corridors
Jaihoon Essays
The curious case of Muslim Kerala’s Communist Apostles
Why don’t the apostles, devout preachers who carved a niche in Malabar for ‘Shaykh Marx’ and ‘Hazrat Lenin’, become full time Party members?
Silence of the Kashgar Daughters (Txt ver)
What would it be like to set foot on that timeless soil where Past and Present played hide and seek from the other? My head lectured on the impossibilities even as my heart whispered about the possibilities. And I knew Truth would finally triumph even if Falsehood would stage its deceptive dance to snare my dream. Heart got its due, but after patiently knocking for more than ten years at Destiny’s doors.
Of Bukhara’s Brides & Babar’s Belligerence : A Travel Tale to Timur’s Towns
With the Two Bs, Baber and Bukhari, I had to acknowledge the Uzbek contribution to my creed and country… Jaihoon’s @ Uzbekistan, Oct 2014
Death – The Nemesis of Human Mortality: No more Grand Prayer from my Grandmother
Nothing does more damage to our creative ambitions than the loss of our dearest well-wishers- writes Mujeeb Jaihoon
Freedom is the oxygen of the Intellectual
This article is in response to a Twitter discussion, on public intellectuals in the gulf, triggered by the writer’s comment, I thought “public intellectuals” in the Gulf was an oxymoron!
Expats in UAE: Moving Beyond Monetary Interaction to Social Integration
That expatriates have transplanted a major portion of their lifespan to explore and enjoy better economics in this country is understandable. It is also true that this country has offered expats what their country of origin has not.
Taking stock BEFORE Ramadan
If we could take this Ramadan as a time for self-assessment. Could we also try to find out how much have the Muslims positively contributed to the development of the world and to the total fund of knowledge and human experiences during this whole year?
Ramadan to Ramadan: Three Rs to Reflect
It is habitual for us to ‘regret about the past, complain about the present and worry about the future’. We spend more time thinking about them, than trying to solve them.
Gujarat’s Guts, Malabar’s Malady (On the growing alcoholism in Muslim Kerala)
The Hindu majority state had the guts which the Muslim Malabar, with all its organized Muslim political and religious power had failed to achieve. If Gandhi Factor is the honorary reason for the largely successful ban n Gujarat, Malabar too is not lacking in spiritual cum political luminaries